Although failing at the first attempt in 1950, he passed his in philosophy on the second try, in 1951 | Like France and Sweden, Poland legally tolerated but socially frowned on homosexual activity, and Foucault undertook relationships with a number of men; one was with a Polish security agent who hoped to trap Foucault in an embarrassing situation, which therefore would reflect badly on the French embassy |
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Foucault's writings, particularly The History of Sexuality, have also been very influential in and , particularly the work of the major Feminist scholar due to his theories regarding the genealogy of maleness and femaleness, power, sexuality, and bodies | Michel Foucault: Key Concepts pp |
Later in his life, Foucault explained that his work was less about analyzing power as a phenomenon than about trying to characterize the different ways in which contemporary society has expressed the use of power to "objectivise subjects.
David Macey — The Lives of Michel Foucault-Verso Books, 2019• " Foucault contracted HIV and eventually developed AIDS | I'd told him about it in 1981 when I was visiting, and he laughed at me and said, 'This is some new piece of American Puritanism |
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Largely consisting of Foucault's discussion of textual dating—an "archaeology of the Kantian text"—he rounded off the thesis with an evocation of Nietzsche, his biggest philosophical influence | Disciplinary power What Foucault calls "disciplinary power" aims to use bodies' skills as effectively as possible |
In 1975 he had a experience with Simeon Wade and Michael Stoneman in , California and later wrote "it was the greatest experience of his life, and that it profoundly changed his life and his work".
18Roger Kimball, The perversions of M | Since the prisoners will never be able to know whether they are being watched or not at a given moment, they will internalize the disciplinary power and regulate their own behavior as if they were constantly being watched |
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Biopower studies populations regarding for example number of births, life expectancy, public health, housing, migration, crime, which social groups are over-represented in deviations from the norm regarding health, crime, etc | The sovereign has a right to subtract — to take life, to enslave life, etc |
, 2013, A Companion to Foucault, Oxford: Blackwell.